GOP Quietly Paid Legal Bills of James Tobin -- $700,000+

[AtLiberty]

GOP Paying Legal Bills of Bush Official

By JOHN SOLOMON,
Associated Press Writer
Thu Aug 11, 3:08 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Despite a zero-tolerance policy on tampering with voters, the Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.

James Tobin, the president's 2004 campaign chairman for New England, is charged in New Hampshire federal court with four felonies accusing him of conspiring with a state GOP official and a GOP consultant in Virginia to jam Democratic and labor union get-out-the-vote phone banks in November 2002.

A telephone firm was paid to make repeated hang-up phone calls to overwhelm the phone banks in New Hampshire and prevent them from getting Democratic voters to the polls on Election Day 2002, prosecutors allege. Republican John Sununu won a close race that day to be New Hampshire's newest senator.

At the time, Tobin was the RNC's New England regional director, before moving to President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050811/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_voter_suppression;_ylt=Asiv6BJg4Ni4vr.oRB5PtM6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM

[annabanana]

1. nominated....n/t

[EST]

2. Gotta' hire the very best to cover up fraud on a gigantic scale!

Helps to appear before a neocon judge, too.

[PunkPop]

3. Rated 5 stars

He doesn't look too shifty now does he?

[Botany]

4. They hacked into phone lines in Ohio too last year.

True story after seeing election fraud in Ohio I tried to call
the voter protection hotline and it had been hacked into. It
played crazy music had a forever hold and a voice chanting strange
stuff. Within an 1 hour of Kerry's concession speech is was gone.

Kerry lines were hacked and jammed too. Also people who got
misleading voter information phones calls when they tried to
trace the call back by doing a * 69 on the phone key pads it
was routed to the Kerry HQ phones.

[Fly by night]

5. We also need to throw Sproul & Associates in Mehlman's smarmy face.

Yeah, the RNC doesn't tolerate fraud -- they just hire Sproul & (assorted) Ass(es) to register voters in six states under false pretenses and then throw away the registrations for Democrats.

Someone who has more time today might post the link to our threads on that kettle of rotting fish. I believe S & A was the sixth largest paid contractor to the RNC in the 2004 election campaign.

[progressoid]

8. What ever happened to Sproul?

that bastard should be rotting in jail somewhere.

[Botany]

9. He helped in the Ohio recount and then went as a guest of

the President to a White House Christmas party.

His last payment from bush/cheney 04 was made in Jan of 05 for
"work" after the election in Ohio.

In Nevada, Oregon, and Arizona he had people dress up like America
Coming together and signed up new voters pitching dem ones
and keeping the repug ones. He did that nationwide too.

He got kicked out of South Dakota for election crimes too .....
his employees moved on to Ohio then.

[progressoid]

10. If he shows up in my state...

I might do something illegal too.

[JAbuchan08]

6. I saw this earlier today

But it would be unreasonable to come to the conclusion that the national GOP was involved, because that's just MEAN to the poor wittle widdums - they didn't KNOW! Sometimes I wonder if there is a vast right wing conspiracy or if criminal Republicans advance their conspiracies simply by counting on the rest of the GOP to act like Republicans.

[AtLiberty]

7. Wouldn't be at all surprised if the $$$...

...the GOP "donated" to pay the legal fees was sucked from some public funding set aside for state pensions or workers' comp. That's how they operate...

[kster]

11. kick.nt

[Doo_Revolution]

12. But Ken Mehlman, you said republicans were above this kind of behavior!

Shame on you for saying they don't do computer fraud!

Those innocent angels! :sarcasm:

[AtLiberty]

13. Ever notice how "God's work" always involves...

...lying, cheating, stealing, corruption and murder?

As long as nobody is having sex, all is well.

[Fly by night]

14. Correction: "as long as no one is having sex among consenting adults"

all is well. It sounds like there is some "sex" captured on the so-far censored photos and video from Abu Ghraib that we're still not able to see. But it also sounds like it is anything but consensual. But that's o.k. with Rummy and Condi.

And my guess is that White House staffers took frequent advantage of more of Jeff Gannon's skills than just his willingness to parrot Republi-Nazi "talking points".

Jeff, it's not polite to talk with your mouth full, don'cha know?

[rumpel]

15. LA Times also printed this article 8/12, right next to Sheehan and *

statements of yesterday.